San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-09

NEW ORLEANS Is congratulating her
self on her prospective Importance as
wheat market. Shipments are gradual
Is increasing from month 10 month. For
the period commencing with the close Of
October. 1885, TO Feb. 9TH, 1886, there
were no shipments; corresponding
period this year shows 6ls,OOO bushels
shipment and a steady increase from
month 10 month. The shipments for
the first week of February aggregated
more than the November shipments, and
almost equaled those OF December.
An in urance bill before the state leg
stature requires insurance companies,
In cases Of total loss, TO pay the full face
value Of the insurance. This Is just. 1t
is the business Of the companies to see
that the Insurance is not granted for
more than il actually covers, and the
law that permits Insurance companies
to charge premiums upon larger
amounts than they pay in case of loss
is manifestly unequal, and unjust to in
surers.
WHEN the executive committee of the
democratic party OF Bexar county NOM
mate a municipal ticket for San Antonio,
do they do so on the general principal
that the greater contains the less? One
naturally grows curious to understand
by what peculiar genealogical legerde-
main the democratic executive commit
tee Of BeXar county becomes the lineal
descendendant and heir OF the demOc-
raCy OF San Antonio for purposes OF mu-
nicipal nominations? Having assumed
charge OF the effects is it in their power
to deliver the goods? These questions
are not asked in any oaptious spirit. Far
be it from the LIGHT to question the
executive committee OF the democracy
Of Bexar county, whose ways, like those
Of providence, are mysterious and past
fading out. The LIGHT. as others have
done aforetime, only asks for more light
concerning the situation.
THERE is little love lost between the
Paris News and the Waco Examiner.
Ihe cOrdiality has not been Increased by
the recent deliverance of the News TO
the effect that March will be here next
month, when Barlow expects to ram his
paws into the Golfers OF the Galveston
Dallas News and extract thereirom $j0,-
900 current money of the country" Bar
tow resents this In a paragraph of adj
jeCtive denunciatiOn, and so the curses,
like chickens, come home 10 meet.
The municipal situation mixes consid-
erably. 1t will take fully another week
to clear the atmOspere and determine
r, suits. There are some very accepta-
bic candidates among the lot, but they
are not all in one batch. The intelli
gent voter will have to take his pick,
select the man for alderman whom he
thinks best fitted to represent the interest
of the city, and work and vote him. Ii
Will De d sincere ShllslhOil Oll u see sOlbS
of the leaders of the mixed pickles"
business, who aspired to a seat on the
top benches, get beautifully lett. There
are aldermanic candidates enough Of
the right stripe among those already an
nounced, to give this city tirst-olass
council, the best she has ever had. In
der the administration of such men as
Belknap, Heuermann, Dreiss, Degener,
Smye and Hickman there would be little
doubt of the municipal affairs of this
city being so conducted as to reflect
credit upon the council. and honor upon
the municipality. In the present out
look of affairs no one can tell either
what the end may be or what day may
bring forth The thing is mixed, much
Iy mixed AS between the two political
parties one is AFRAID and the other dare
not. The council will be composed of
the men who receive the most votes,
and the failure to select the best mate
rial will rest with no one, politically.
This is the beauty of fusion and con-
fusion.